pretty much everyone is serious but you.
once again, what happened to solid state? cheese forks, double torsion springs, quad clamps, a one piece deck, some other kind of fork, old a reinforcements... all that stuff.
stick a flathead screwdriver between the foldy and the plastic piece and pry it off. also, theres a little piece on the side of it you can slide out so it falls right off.
i was looking through some stuff and i found some bar ends. i decided to see if i could shove them into my buffs, and yeah. it worked.
any bar end like these will work with stock buff cross bars.
you need to push the 4 sides together to fit them inside the crossbar, though.